GE and COMAC sign digital collaboration MOU

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA -- GE Aviation and COMAC announced that they signed an MOU on digital collaboration. This agreement brings the cooperation between COMAC and GE to a new level from the aircraft engines and systems to now broadening their relationship to use data and analytics to bring greater operational efficiency to their operations.

Wu Guanghui, VP of COMAC and Weiming Xiang, President of GE Aviation Greater China signed the MOU, witness by President He Dongfeng of COMAC and Chaker Chahrour, vice president and general manager of global sales and marketing of GE Aviation.

Under the agreement, COMAC and GE plan to jointly explore and collaborate on digital solutions and applications on customer & product support monitoring & diagnostics, Intelligent Aircraft and Brilliant Manufacturing. The two companies will set up a joint team to launch pilot projects based on an earlier outcome-based workshop and exchanges to verify the technical trends for further collaboration.

"This agreement with COMAC will enable our teams of software architects and aviation domain experts to jointly develop digital solutions at GE's Shanghai digital collaboration center," said Jim Daily, chief digital officer for GE Aviation. "The partnership between COMAC and GE will result in digital solutions that will transform COMAC's operations all the way from brilliant manufacturing to advanced flight analytics to comprehensive fleet operations support."

Through the partnership, data scientists, software developers and architects from GE and COMAC plan to work together to refine some of the ten billion data points produced by the aviation sector annually into solutions that can achieve greater fleet intelligence and operational insights.

In the past year, GE has opened collaboration centers in Shanghai, Dubai, Austin and Paris, connecting data, developers and Predix, the world's first and only cloud-based operating system built exclusively for industry. Predix is powering innovative Industrial Internet apps that turn operational data into insight for better and faster decision making.

See how GE Aviation's Digital Solutions and Predix are taking aviation productivity to the next level. Click here for a video on how GE Aviation is positioned to lead the Digital Industrial Era. Click here for video on how GE Aviation's digital solutions impact the future of air travel.

GE is the world's Digital Industrial Company, transforming industry with software-defined machines and solutions that are connected, responsive and predictive. GE is organized around a global exchange of knowledge, the "GE Store," where each business shares and accesses the same technology, markets, structure and intellect. Each invention further fuels innovation and application across our industrial sectors. With people, services, technology and scale, GE delivers better outcomes for customers by speaking the language of industry.

Share this

GE Aviation

GE Aviation is a world-leading provider of commercial, military and business and general aviation jet and turboprop engines and components as well as avionics, electrical power and mechanical systems for aircraft. GE has a global service network to support these offerings. GE and its customers are also working together to unlock new opportunities to grow and deliver more productivity beyond traditional services. GE Aviation is becoming a digital industrial business with its ability to harness large streams of data that are providing incredible insights and in turn, real operational value for customers.